Las Vegas police have detained a man in connection with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 drive-by shooting, a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has vexed investigators and captivated the public since the hip-hop icon was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip 27 years ago.
According to two officials with firsthand knowledge of the incident, Duane “Keffe D” Davis was detained early Friday morning, though the particular charge or charges were not immediately clear.
They were not authorized to talk publicly before an expected indictment later that day.
Investigators have known Davis for a long time, and he has stated in interviews and in his 2019 tell-all biography, Compton Street Legend, that he was in the Cadillac where the bullets erupted during the September 1996 drive-by shooting. Shakur was 25 years old when he was killed.
The arrest comes just two months after Las Vegas police raided Davis’ wife’s home in adjacent Henderson on July 17.
According to the documents, investigators were looking for items “relating to Tupac Shakur’s murder.”
Multiple computers, a cellphone and hard drive, a Vibe magazine featuring Shakur, several .40-caliber bullets, two “tubs containing photographs,” and a copy of Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir, Compton Street Legend, were seized by police.
